is starting.

I'm guessing that's closer to the truth.

Link to tweet

of information demonstrating that Trump and associates are criminals.

This appears to be a cheap spam email attempt to extort some bitcoin.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wave-bomb-threats-causes-evacuations-anxiety-nationwide-n947671

New York police later said on Twitter that there was an “email being circulated containing a bomb threat asking for bitcoin payment” but that no devices had been found.

Police added it appeared the threats were “meant to cause disruption and/or obtain money.”

Recent history has been political where bomb threats are concerned.

I keep getting “We know what porn you’ve been watching and we’ll tell everybody if you don’t sent Bitcoin...” As if I cared. 🙄

I really don't understand why people would do that as a hoax. I imagine such a threat is a felony, and if it is, then they're risking extremely serious consequences for no real reason.

I can't imagine the fear that such threats affect populations who have recently been attacked.

But there are people out there who do know what they are doing. They concern me.

But consider why someone would do it as "not a hoax".

Why would you go through the trouble of making and planting a bomb, and then make a telephone call to tell people it is there?

If you want to cause a panic, evacuation, shutdown, or whatever, all you have to do is to make the phone call without having to go through the trouble of making and planting a bomb which is going to end up harming no one since you called it in.

Or, let me ask a more pointed question:

What proportion of times has a telephoned bomb threat resulted in a bomb actually being at the location in question?

Have you ever actually heard of that happening ever? Maybe it has somewhere, but I really don't see the point of calling to warn people about a bomb you've planted.

But, in this instance, the reason is quite clear - to get paid.

Granted, it's from 1980.

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite?no-overlay#chapter-111721

Does this sound like anyone else we know from a recent incident?

...I’m going to do up my van like the Scooby Doo kids.

Everyone will just think I'm Walter White and not a mad bomber!

They called in the warnings in time for the building to be evacuated. I never had a problem understanding their reasoning.

to come along again. I guess it's because it was normalized to me as a child of the '60's so I think it's going to happen again.

What is the reasoning?

And would it be applicable to the various hate/terror groups of the present?

Does that apply to the various hate/terror groups of the present? I don't know.

Calling in the bomb threat gets everybody scared, ties up resources, allows bad guys to measure various aspects of the response, gets much attention, and generally causes terror. If a real bomb then goes off or is even discovered before it goes off, then the next threat has to be taken very seriously. Terrorism on the cheap.

Maria Butina's testimony and that it's all over but for that fat lady singing.

Knuckle-draggers attempting to provoke civil unrest. They too can share a jail cell with their Cult Leader.

payments. I assume that it's connected to these others? They're responding to each alert but say it's not a credible threat.

Link to tweet

Ere will soon be Trump Wing in some Federal prisons. They are going to get caught.
Lock them all up.

It was clearly a phishing spam, but boy have they gotten bold.

into airports. At first they were taken seriously, with the airport shut down, sniffer dogs brought out, and so on.

After a while, and after there was never a bomb, the response became quite muted. I know about this because I worked at DCA, Washington National Airport, during that time. We got so we simply rolled our eyes at each new threat.

People who phone in bomb threats are deranged in some sort of way. People who actually construct bombs, put them in place, and set them off, are deranged in some other way.